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Andrew D. Ho – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2024
I review opportunities and threats that widely accessible Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered services present for educational statistics and measurement. Algorithmic and computational advances continue to improve approaches to item generation, scale maintenance, test security, test scoring, and score reporting. Predictable misuses of AI for…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Measurement, Educational Assessment, Technology Uses in Education
Xiang, Rui – ProQuest LLC, 2013
A key issue of cognitive diagnostic models (CDMs) is the correct identification of Q-matrix which indicates the relationship between attributes and test items. Previous CDMs typically assumed a known Q-matrix provided by domain experts such as those who developed the questions. However, misspecifications of Q-matrix had been discovered in the past…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Cognitive Processes, Matrices, Test Items
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Sinharay, Sandip; Holland, Paul – ETS Research Report Series, 2006
It is a widely held belief that an anchor test used in equating should be a miniature version (or "minitest") of the tests to be equated; that is, the anchor test should be proportionally representative of the two tests in content and statistical characteristics. This paper examines the scientific foundation of this belief, especially…
Descriptors: Test Items, Equated Scores, Correlation, Tests
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Baxter, G. P.; Ahmed, S.; Sikali, E.; Waits, T.; Sloan, M.; Salvucci, S. – National Center for Education Statistics, 2007
In 2003, a trial National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) mathematics assessment was administered in Spanish to public school students at grades 4 and 8 in Puerto Rico. Based on preliminary analyses of the 2003 data, changes were made in administration and translation procedures for the 2005 NAEP administration in Puerto Rico. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6
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Cominole, Melissa; Wheeless, Sara; Dudley, Kristin; Franklin, Jeff; Wine, Jennifer – National Center for Education Statistics, 2007
The "2004/06 Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study (BPS:04/06)" is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to respond to the need for a national, comprehensive database concerning issues students may face in enrollment, persistence, progress, and attainment in postsecondary education and in consequent early rates of…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Stopouts, Research Methodology, Data Collection
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Crisp, Geoffrey T.; Palmer, Edward J. – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2007
The appropriate analysis of students' responses to an assessment is an essential step in improving the quality of the assessment itself as well as staff teaching and student learning. Many academics are unfamiliar with the formal processes used to analyze assessment results; the standard statistical methods associated with analyzing the validity…
Descriptors: Multiple Choice Tests, Student Evaluation, Test Results, Test Construction